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White Paper - Benefits Realisation

Article Index
White Paper - Benefits Realisation
Business Goal
How to Make it Work
Delivering Towards Targets
Benefits of the Approach

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The Business Goal

A benefits approach is based on one simple assertion:

Your real goal when making any business investment is to achieve benefits. So long as you can achieve these within accepted constraints, you can be flexible on the specifics of the solution.

Those with business responsibilities don’t argue with this assertion, but the implications are not reflected in the majority of projects we see.

Serious About Benefit Realisation?

Asking a few simple questions can check how serious your organisation is about realising benefits.

Does everyone have the same understanding of what a benefit is?
Have required benefits been expressed in measurable terms early project documentation, e.g. project mandates, requirement specifications, business cases?
Do project reports show measurable progress in delivering benefits?

In environments where the answers to all these questions is “No”, we generally find that benefits are not a primary goal, but something that people expect to emerge from activities and products that form the main project drivers. Responsibility for benefit realisation is often undefined and is only addressed after project delivery.

Where you can answer all the questions with “Yes”, you have a benefits driven project environment, or business driving the technology implementation.

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